1 Maccabees 8:9
Good News Translation
When the Greeks made plans to attack and destroy them,

New Revised Standard Version
The Greeks planned to come and destroy them,

Contemporary English Version
When the Romans found out that the Greeks were plotting against them, they sent a general to attack the Greeks. His army killed and wounded many of them and then captured their families and took everything of value. After the Romans had conquered Greece, they tore down its fortresses, and they still rule that country today.

New American Bible
When the Greeks planned to come and destroy them,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And that they who were in Greece, had a mind to go and to destroy them: and they had knowledge thereof,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And that they who were in Greece, had a mind to go and to destroy them: and they had knowledge thereof,

1 Maccabees 8:7
And how they took him alive, and appointed to him, that both he and they that should reign after him, should pay a great tribute, and that he should give hostages, and that which was agreed upon,

1 Maccabees 8:8
And the country of the Indians, and of the Medes, and of the Lydians, some of their best provinces: and those which they had taken from them, they gave to king Eumenes.

1 Maccabees 8:10
And they sent a general against them, and fought with them, and many of them were slain, and they carried away their wives, and their children captives, and spoiled them, and took possession of their land, and threw down their walls, and brought them to be their servants unto this day.

1 Maccabees 8:11
And the other kingdoms, and islands, that at any time had resisted them, they had destroyed and brought under their power.

Context
1 Maccabees 8
8And the country of the Indians, and of the Medes, and of the Lydians, some of their best provinces: and those which they had taken from them, they gave to king Eumenes. 9And that they who were in Greece, had a mind to go and to destroy them: and they had knowledge thereof, 10And they sent a general against them, and fought with them, and many of them were slain, and they carried away their wives, and their children captives, and spoiled them, and took possession of their land, and threw down their walls, and brought them to be their servants unto this day.…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 8:7
And how they took him alive, and appointed to him, that both he and they that should reign after him, should pay a great tribute, and that he should give hostages, and that which was agreed upon,

1 Maccabees 8:8
And the country of the Indians, and of the Medes, and of the Lydians, some of their best provinces: and those which they had taken from them, they gave to king Eumenes.

1 Maccabees 8:10
And they sent a general against them, and fought with them, and many of them were slain, and they carried away their wives, and their children captives, and spoiled them, and took possession of their land, and threw down their walls, and brought them to be their servants unto this day.

1 Maccabees 8:11
And the other kingdoms, and islands, that at any time had resisted them, they had destroyed and brought under their power.



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1 Maccabees 8:8
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